Intravesical therapy use in the high risk patient: practice patterns in an equal access healthcare institution before and after national guidelines.

Purpose: We examined patterns of intravesical therapy use in nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer over the last 10 years at our institution where there is equal access to healthcare. We further examined any affect that the introduction of national guidelines may have had on the utilization of intravesical therapy in these patients.

Materials And Methods: An Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved retrospective chart review was performed between the years 1997 and 2007.

Epidemiology of nephrolithiasis in personnel returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Objectives: To examine the epidemiology of urolithiasis in personnel returning from deployment to Southwest Asia.

Methods: A survey-based study of personnel returning from deployment to Southwest Asia was performed. The demographics were compared between the personnel reporting a history of urolithiasis during or within the first 90 days of returning from deployment and the personnel without a history of reported urolithiasis.

Lichen sclerosus: review of the literature and current recommendations for management.

Purpose: We reviewed the literature regarding the clinical presentation, etiology, natural history, and medical and surgical management of lichen sclerosus in men.

Materials And Methods: We performed a comprehensive search of the literature in PubMed, MEDLINE and other electronic databases between 1950 and 2006 using the key words lichen sclerosis, balanitis xerotica obliterans and urethral stricture. Our search resulted in 1,268 sources containing the words lichen sclerosus or balanitis xerotica obliterans.

Benign fibrous pseudotumor of tunica vaginalis testis.

We discuss the rare benign paratesticular mass identified as fibrous pseudotumor. We performed a published data search to review the etiology, incidence, gross and microscopic examinations, and pathologic diagnostic considerations. Fibrous pseudotumor is a rare, benign lesion.

Ureteral endometriosis in patients after total abdominal hysterectomy: presentation and diagnosis: a case series.

Although ureteral endometriosis is uncommon, it is a significant disease process that can cause irreversible renal damage because of delays in diagnosis. It is even more uncommon and therefore more likely to be left out of the differential diagnosis in postmenopausal women. This case series reviewed the clinical presentation and treatment of ureteral endometriosis, as well as the history and treatment of 3 postmenopausal women who presented with ureteral obstruction secondary to ureteral endometriomas.